Who do you choose?

Jan 23, 1968 The USS Pueblo, a US Navy Intelligent ship was hijacked by North Korean Patrol bats in the international water off the coast of North Korea. This started a military standoff that lasted 11 months. 82 surviving crew member were taken into captivity. In one instance 13 of the men were required to sit around a table for hours . The NK guard beat the man in the first chair This happened for 3 days.

Noting the man could not survive the next day another man took his place. The next day the door swung open and the guard automatically beat the new victim senseless. For several weeks a new man step forward each day to sit in the horrible chair know full well what would happen. The guards gave up. They could not overcome that kind of self sacrificial love.

Each of us is the person sitting in the first chat but instead of being beating we are to die. Knowing this Jesus traded place with tus and took the death blows that were intended for us. No one suffered more than Jesus Because he is the only one who is sinless. He became our sin bearer out of pure unconditional love.

Mark 15 is a picture of how much Jesus loved us.

The Location

The Participation

The Exoneration

The Condemnation

V.1 -5

Power Corrupts. Absolute Power Corrupts absolutely.

Its now morning The Jewish leaders already violated several of the regulations when bringing a person to trial.

Not During a feast Time

Not During the Nighttime

Not pronouncing a sentence or caring out that sentence for at least a day sometime up to 3.

Now they try to fool the people by showing up early in the morning and handing Jesus over to be brought to Pilate. Roman proceedings began at Day Break so they made sure they

Because it is the Passover it was customary for the Roman Governors to come to Jerusalem.

Listen to the Silence of our Saviour in the midst of the false accusations.

Keeping Our composure in the midst of the trials of life give great witness to the keeping power of Christ to those around us.

The Participation

The Elder Scribes and the whole Sanhedrin

Mark 10:33 “33 “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death. Then they will hand him over to the Gentiles,”

Pilate

Notice the

The fifth Roman governor of Palestine, Pontius Pilate bore the official title “Prefect,” and his residence was at Caesarea Maritima.

AD 26-37 - Longest of the 14

This was a stepping stone for most Roman Political figures.

He wasn't incompetent but impulsive

He introduced a a Bust of the emperor emperor Tiberius and - There was a nonviloe protest at his resident for 5 day and he took them protested and in statum to be slay them but becase they went willingly he stoped that and removed the busts from Jerusalem.

He constructed a 23 mile long aqueduct to bring fresh water into Jerusalem.

Took money form the temple tresurey to fund it and that stated a nother proteste where peopel were killed.

Luke 13:1 “1 At that time, some people came and reported to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.”

The last was a Sameritan uprising that Pilate ciolently subded led to his removal.

Pilate was a political coward

Crowd The Crowd was not made up of only the Sandhedran

V6-15 The Exoneration

Jesus Son of the Father Barabbas

Zelot

Murder , Robbery, Insercetion,

The Scape Goat

Leviticus 16:7-10Leviticus 16:7-10 “7 Next he will take the two goats and place them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 8 After Aaron casts lots for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other for an uninhabitable place, 9 he is to present the goat chosen by lot for the Lord and sacrifice it as a sin offering. 10 But the goat chosen by lot for an uninhabitable place is to be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement with it by sending it into the wilderness for an uninhabitable place.”

The releasing of the goat symbolized the sins of the people being carried away, never to be held against them again.

Warren W. Wiersbe

The act of sending the live goat out into the wilderness, which was unholy ground, was to send the sins of the people where they belonged—to the demonic domain.

Michael S. Heiser

The goat for Azazel wasn’t an offering to evil gods—the goat was never sacrificed. Instead, sending it into the wilderness was a symbolic way of cleansing holy ground (the Israelite camp) from sin.

Michael S. Heiser

Who do you want?

A Jesus that does not make you feel guilty

A Jesus you could live with

A Jesus of this world

A Jesus that wants all the things that you want.

V.15 The Condemnation

Jesus the King of the Jews

His Pain Our Gain

The Flogging

The Cat of Nine Tails

No limit not the 39- minus 1

HANDED HIM OVER - ISA 53:6,12 “12 Therefore I will give him the many as a portion, and he will receive the mighty as spoil, because he willingly submitted to death, and was counted among the rebels; yet he bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels.”

His condemnation led to our reconciliation with God.